Chapter 656: The Tenth Lot
"Harry, did you say I had a chance to shoot that potion!"
"Rakhi, I don't know about this either!"
"Harry, how many gold coins did you say would fetch that potion later?"
"I don't know how many gold coins I can shoot, but I think it's a sky-high price!"
In the manor of the Holy Comptoir, Gervais and Ratchey were walking with a large crowd towards the auction hall at the end of the manor.
Gervais, however, was tormented by Rach's bombardment, and regretted coming with him.
No sooner had than Gvais's answer had fallen, but Rach's question came again.
"Harry, my father gave me the right to use 20,000 gold coins, do you think that's enough? After all, no matter how powerful it is, it's just a potion! ”
The reason why Rage chattered was because he had no confidence at this point.
The Holy City of Heka is very far away from the City of Hope, and at such a distance, even if the auction is over, Rakhi's father may not receive news about the potion.
Fortunately, there is a bird called the Rainbow Bird in the Sacred Continent, although this bird is only a low-level demonic beast and the size is very small, but its flight speed is very fast.
Almost every family of these rainbow birds is bred to transmit information, just like the carrier pigeons of Gervais's previous life.
And it only took three days for the Rainbow Bird to fly from the City of Hope to the Holy City of Heka, so the news about the potion had already reached the Holy City of Heka four days ago.
For this magical potion, Rakhi's father is also very concerned, but the distance between the two places takes ** days even if it is a flying bird and monster, so Ratchi's father naturally can't come to the auction in person.
In the end, the matter was left to Rakhi, who had come on a better journey, only occasionally vowing to complete what his father had told him this time, and to obtain a bottle of mental power potion for the holy city of Heka.
However, when they arrived at the Manor of the Holy Firm, Ratche's original confidence vanished, as he saw that the crowd walking around them at this time were all the leading figures of the Holy Alliance.
He had thought that with the right to use 20,000 gold coins, he would be a must-have for a potion.
But looking at the big people beside him, Ratchet knew that 20,000 gold coins were nothing compared to the magician.
"Ratchey, you'll know the results when the auction starts, so don't worry, it's useless for you to worry now."
Gervais naturally knew the reason for Lache's bombardment, and even if he had a headache, there was nothing he could do.
After all, Ratchey was also thinking about sending money to himself anyway.
So he could only pat Ratchey's shoulder helplessly, and patiently said a word of comfort.
As for what kind of price the potion can fetch at auction, Gervais himself cannot predict.
Is it thousands of gold coins? Or tens of thousands of gold coins?
All of this will need to be revealed when the actual filming will begin!
"Harry, you have a point! It's useless to worry now, if I really can't even get 20,000 gold coins, then I can only save my father a gold coin! ”
Rage listened to Gervais's words and nodded in disappointment.
Then, perhaps the questions were all asked, and Rage finally put an end to the chatter he had been having.
Gervais breathed a sigh of relief, and the two continued to follow the crowd, and soon they reached the front of the building where the auction was held.
The auction hall is a beautiful circular building, with a height of more than 30 meters, and its walls are also engraved with many runes, which should be used to strengthen the walls.
"Honorable Magicians, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but please show me your tickets to the auction site!"
When Gervais and Rudge arrived at the entrance of the auction, one of the attendants saluted the two respectfully before asking them for tickets in a soft tone.
"This is our ticket!"
Ratchet immediately handed over a black card from his hand, which was the ticket to the auction issued by the Divine Firm.
Each of the one hundred and eight holy cities of the Holy Alliance this time has one, and one admission ticket can allow two people to enter the venue, so Gervais came with Rakhi today.
Of course, even if there is no admission ticket for Ratchey, Gervais himself will be able to enter, because Adella's chick has already given him an admission ticket with a book.
However, Gervais received an invitation from Ratchey yesterday, saying that he was bringing him to see the world, and Gervais did not use his own.
"Your Excellency, two venerable magicians, please inside!"
The attendant took the ticket from Ratchey's hand and quickly verified it, and after confirming that it was correct, he saluted the two respectfully again, and then invited them into the auction hall.
When entering the auction venue, Gervais found that the layout of this place was actually somewhat similar to the original gladiatorial arena in Lindong City, which was a semi-circular layout with a total of two floors.
The first floor of the auction hall is a general area, and each position is neatly arranged, although it is not so spacious, but it can accommodate a lot of people.
The second floor is the VIP area, which not only has fenced partition seats, but also has many attendants shuttling through the crowd to provide snacks and tea.
Of course, the hall of the auction venue can only accommodate 1,000 people at most, which cannot be compared with the Colosseum, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people.
And this auction party also has a roof, and the roof is inlaid with hundreds of deep-sea pearls, illuminating the entire hall as if it were daytime.
At this time, there were almost people in the auction hall, and because Rachi represented the holy city of Heka, his place was assigned to the VIP area on the second floor with a better view.
When the two of them came to the second floor and took their seats, they just waited for a while, and the other people who participated in the auction also arrived one after another.
While!
Although the people were all there, a pendulum clock rang from the high platform in front of the hall.
Then I saw a middle-aged man wearing a dress walking to the high platform, who was the host of today's auction.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sacred Auction!"
When the host came to the stage, he greeted everyone with a smile and strong and clear words, and then began to introduce the rules of the auction.
It was the second time that Gervais had participated in the auction, so he didn't listen much, but glanced at it slightly, and found that Adele was sitting with Edward in a booth not far away.
Adele also did not listen carefully to the host's words at this time, but kept scanning the crowd below with her beautiful eyes, and it was obvious that Adele was looking for Gervais.
"After the precautions are finished, then I will not delay any longer, and our auction today will officially begin!"
"Let's start the auction of the first lot!"
When the precautions were finished, the host was also very simple and started the auction directly.
As his words fell, he saw two beautiful maids carrying a tray to the high platform, and then steadily placed the tray on the display table.
When everyone looked fixedly, it was a small jar of silver sand.
"This is a Mithril Essence, with a total weight of one catty, and its function is believed to be known to everyone, if you want to forge weapons and equipment of spiritual quality, you must use this Mithril Essence as a material!"
"If you want to forge your own legendary equipment or even better epic equipment, don't miss this lot, the starting price of this lot is 2,000 gold coins, and the price increase is no less than 50 gold coins each time!"
Seeing that everyone's eyes were on the first lot, the host also opened his mouth to make an introduction.
"2,100 gold coins!"
"I'll give out 2,150 gold coins!"
"I'll give out 2,200 gold coins!"
“……”
The host's voice fell, and the sound of bidding instantly sounded in the hall.
"Wow! There's even the essence of Mithril, which is rare! It's a pity that my 10,000 gold coins can only be used to auction off those two potions. ”
As the bidding in the hall erupted, Rage turned to Gervais and whispered, his eyes full of envy.
This Mithril Essence is actually the core of Mithril Mine, and the appearance of Mithril Mine is also related to it.
As long as there is this Mithril Essence, even if the Mithril Mine is exhausted, the mine will still slowly recover after being stored for tens of hundreds of years.
And the more time passes, the larger the Mithril Mine becomes.
Because of this, the Mithril Essence has become rare, and no family is willing to put it up for auction.
This is because once the Mithril Essence is taken out of the ground, it immediately loses its effect and can only be used as a material for forging weapons and equipment.
Most of the Legendary or Epic weapons in the Sacred Continent are either picked up from the Godfall Lands, or the forged Mithril Essence is mined from the Godfall Lands.
Rage muttered as the Mithril Essence auction came to an end.
As the host's hammer fell, this piece of Mithril Essence was finally auctioned by a Holy City Lord for 3,500 gold coins.
With the first lot being sold successfully, seven or eight more lots were sold at auction prices that were no less than the previous Mithril Essence.
There was even a piece of armor that was directly auctioned for 10,000 gold coins, which made Gervais and Lackey speechless.
Of course, there would not be so many good things in the auctions in the past, but this time because of the potions, the Divine Merchant House knew that there must be many big people coming, so the Divine Merchant House was also fully prepared and exchanged all the lots for precious things.
As the auction lots become more and more precious and the prices are getting higher and higher, the emotions of the crowd have been mobilized.
"Next up is the tenth lot!"
As the host's voice sounded, the two maids from earlier came to the high platform again carrying a tray.
When everyone looked towards the tray, they found that this lot was a little strange, it turned out to be a small stone statue.
The stone statue had the appearance of a humanoid person, and was wearing a suit of armor with numerous runes on it.
"How can there be such a statue that it is also auctioned at this auction?"
Rage observed the statue for a moment, then muttered to himself.
Gervais heard Ratche's muttering, but he didn't understand the meaning of his words, and some aspects of Gervais's knowledge reserve about these strange things in the Sacred Continent were not as much as Ratche's.
Just as Gervais was about to ask Ratchey, the host of the station gave the answer first.
"The tenth lot is this stone statue, which comes from the ruins of a small temple in the Godfall Lands, and the ruins of that temple may have been the palace of some Myojin!"
"When the adventurers found this stone statue, it was placed at the innermost end of the ruins of the main hall, next to a decaying shrine!"
"It's impossible to say for sure if this statue is the god's deity! However, it can be placed next to the shrine of the temple, and the special features of this stone statue are needless to say. ”
"And the statues that can directly record the faces of the gods are well known, either they use magical materials, or the stone statues themselves are contaminated with the breath of the gods, otherwise they can't record the faces of the gods."
"So the auction price of this lot is 5,000 gold coins, and the price of each bid must not be less than 100 gold coins!"
"Well, once again, we Divine Firms can't determine whether this stone statue is the appearance of a god or not, so you need to consider it for yourself before bidding!"
"Now, the auction begins!"
The host gave a detailed explanation of the stone statue, and when he announced the start of the auction, the scene, which had been extremely lively for nine lots in a row, suddenly fell silent.
Most people were looking closely at the stone statue, and wrinkling their eyebrows from time to time when they were observing.
"Rakhi, if this stone statue is really the appearance of a god himself, then what's the use of using it?"
Gervais looked at the stone statue on the display stand, and suddenly asked Lache.
As the host said earlier, the objects that can record the faces of the gods are either special materials or tainted with the breath of the gods themselves.
And this stone statue naturally doesn't need to think about it, it is definitely not made of precious materials, he is carved from the most ordinary bluestone.
Then it can only be said that if this statue is really a certain god, then its face is tainted with the breath of a certain god.
Ratchet clearly knew the purpose of the statue of the god, and when he heard Gervais's inquiry, he immediately turned his head and whispered to Gervais.
"Harry, if this stone statue is the face of the god himself, then if you are lucky enough to enter the Godfall Land, you may be able to gain the favor of the descendants of this god's servant!"
"Or with the breath of a stone statue, you can even open the palace treasure of this god!"
Rage explained the purpose of the statue to Gervais in detail.
After a pause, Rage suddenly remembered something else, and continued.
"Do you know how the Golden Shield family rose in the first place?"
"The Golden Shield family was a vassal state more than two hundred years ago, but on the eve of the catastrophe, they obtained such a statue tainted with the breath of the gods, and luckily met the descendants of the god's servants in the land of the gods."
"In the end, the Golden Shield family exchanged this statue for many treasures with the descendants of those god servants, and there are dozens of strong people who have served them for a hundred years!"
"By the way, it is rumored that the Golden Shield family also has a golden shield that has reached immortal quality, which was also exchanged for those descendants of the gods and slaves!"
"And the name of the Golden Shield family is also derived from this!"
"There is such a thing!"
After listening to Ratche's words, Gervais couldn't help but be surprised, and at the same time sighed at the good luck of the Golden Shield family.
You must know that many empires in the Holy Continent were also in a state of collapse after the catastrophe, and the Golden Shield family took the opportunity to become one of the top forces of the Holy Alliance with the help of the god statue.
"Huh! But Harry, don't beat this statue! ”
"Did you hear what the host said? He said that the Sacred Merchant couldn't be sure if it was a statue of a god himself! ”
"If not, then it's a big rock! 5,000 gold coins are gone! ”
"Besides, even if this stone statue is a statue of the god himself, when it was discovered, the palace had already been looted by adventurers, so there could be no more treasures to open."
"As for looking for the descendants of the god's slave like the Golden Shield family, it's like walking and picking up the two potions that were auctioned today, it's not reliable at all."
"The Land of the Fallen is vast, and I don't know how many years it has existed, and none of the descendants of the gods know if they are already dead."
"You know the sacred tree of every holy city, right? The reason why the sacred tree has spiritual consciousness and can have all kinds of miraculous means is entirely because the sacred tree has the godhead of the gods within it! ”
"If you want to cultivate a holy tree, in addition to the holy tree seeds, you also need another very important thing, that is, the broken godhead left by the gods, when the two are fused, it is possible to cultivate a real holy tree."
"If you think about it, the Holy Alliance has one hundred and eight sacred trees, which means that it has the breath of these one hundred and eight gods, and it is also their godhead consciousness! But none of them have ever encountered the corresponding descendants of the gods' slaves! ”
"In addition, there have been many statues of gods like this, and because of the opportunity of the Golden Shield family, many people flocked to such a statement statue."
"Every time such a statue appears at auction, it is impossible to confirm whether it is a statue of the god himself, and the starting price of the starting price is tens of thousands, and those that can be determined to be a certain god statue can even fetch hundreds of thousands of gold coins."
"But in the past few decades, as more and more such god statues have appeared, but there is no one who has really gained opportunities like the Golden Shield family, so now such god statues have rarely been photographed."
"Especially in each holy city, almost every big and small family has one or two, even my father took two pictures back then!"
"Although the starting price of this stone statue this time is several times less than the previous one, I think few people should shoot it again!"
In the end, Lackey was worried that Gervais would participate in the auction after hearing about the opportunity of the Golden Shield family, so he immediately reminded him.
"Oh!"
Gervais listened to Ratche's words, and although his mouth said a word, the thoughts in his mind kept turning.
Because he was going to take pictures of the stone statue.
Of course, it wasn't that Gervais thought he was lucky or had a lot of money, so he wanted to gamble for 5,000 gold coins.
On the contrary, Gervais does not even have two hundred gold coins in his pocket now, so why would Gervais want to take pictures of this statue of the god?
This is because he has not moved for months, and the system that seems to have disappeared has issued tasks to him like a convulsion.
Just after the previous host's words announcing the start of the auction at the reserve price fell, the voice of the system came to his head.